The Longest Day

crumbschief

Some great ones already mentioned here,a few i really enjoyed and are worth seeking out are.

Stalingrad
Kingdom Of Heaven
No Mans Land
Brotherhood
Atonement
The Mercenaries

magicrhodes

crumbschief wrote:

Some great ones already mentioned here,a few i really enjoyed and are worth seeking out are.

Stalingrad
Kingdom Of Heaven
No Mans Land
Brotherhood
Atonement
The Mercenaries

KOH??? Really??? In spite of the biggest piece of miscasting I have ever seen with Orloondo Bland as the rousing leader! There were some epic scenes but Blandy ruined it

rick_chasey

bagpusscp wrote:

After thinking about this topic again.
Letters from Iwo Jima.
Good short clip as ever on the tube.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6JJvkBksRxk&feature=fvst

*film snob*Did not remotely like that film.

Left me very cold, bored, and even the cinematography was very dull. *film snob*

Alinshearah

greasedscotsman wrote:

Something with John Mills

+1 for Ice Cold in Alice

dynastarg9

No one's mentioned 'Guns of Navarone'.. or 'Battle of the Bulge'. Classics!

rick_chasey

Casablanca

Oh and "Life is Beautiful"

Pross

Homer J wrote:

Heroes of Telemark

+1 for this although I also love The Guns of Navarone and Where Eagles Dare.


I would also agree with Frank the Tank about that scene in Private Ryan - for all the shocking violent realism in the opening scenes I found the hand to hand scene the hardest to watch.

Slightly away from the movies part I love Band of Brothers but have been disappointed with The Pacific so far. The realism aspect is starting to wear off now and the actual content of the Pacific is lacking, I can't feel the attachment I did with the characters in Band of Brothers.

oscarbudgie

Amazing the sh!t that some people think are good films - or was the Windtalkers nomination laced with some really heavy irony?

Anyway -
WW1 La Grande Illusion
Spanish Civil War - Land and Freedom
WW2 (during) The Way Ahead
WW2 (after) Bridge too far (not sure about that one though)
'Nam Apocalypse Now

bobtbuilder

Full Metal Jacket
Black Book
Female Agents

passout

A old B&W WW1 German film - 'all quiet on the Western front' - brilliant. Think it was remade.

Ice Cold in Alex is amazing.

Platoon was really good.

Master and Commander was good.


Good 'not really war films' include The African Queen, Casablanca and my favorite all time film - A Matter of Life and Death with David Niven.

dreamlx10

Ice Cold in Alice

Don't you mean "A Town Like Alex"

antfly

johnfinch wrote:

Pretty Village, Pretty Flame is an excellent war film about Yugoslavia.

I'm also a bit of a sucker for resistance films, so Operation Daybreak about the assassination of Heydrich in the Czech Republic during WW2 was good (apart from the terrible music).

I'm not too keen on the invading army films such as the Longest Day/Bridge Too Far, because it just seems to me that in those circumstances your fate is so far out of your own hands - either a bullet is going to end up lodged in your head or isn't, and I'd hate to be in that sort of situation myself.

+ 1 for Operation Daybreak but the original Czech version which was called "Attentat "
was a lot better and 100% factual.

BigG67

Some belters here but no mention of Downfall?

crumbschief

magicrhodes wrote:

crumbschief wrote:

Some great ones already mentioned here,a few i really enjoyed and are worth seeking out are.

Stalingrad
Kingdom Of Heaven
No Mans Land
Brotherhood
Atonement
The Mercenaries

KOH??? Really??? In spite of the biggest piece of miscasting I have ever seen with Orloondo Bland as the rousing leader! There were some epic scenes but Blandy ruined it

Well it is each to their own,I found the extended Directors Cut the one to watch.

fungus_the_muffin_man

Alinshearah wrote:

greasedscotsman wrote:

Something with John Mills

+1 for Ice Cold in Alice

At last!

Ice cold in Alex is without doubt the best WW2 film of it's era. 8)

afx237vi

Another vote for Ice Cold in Alex. The book is good as well.

I'll say the Battle of Algiers, which no-one has mentioned yet.

crumbschief

BigG67 wrote:

Some belters here but no mention of Downfall?

Yes good one,the utube stuff that was made after was funny though,best not to watch them before the film.

Days Of Glory.
I can think of a few more but they lean more into horror/war.

fungus_the_muffin_man

crumbschief wrote:

magicrhodes wrote:

crumbschief wrote:

Some great ones already mentioned here,a few i really enjoyed and are worth seeking out are.

Stalingrad
Kingdom Of Heaven
No Mans Land
Brotherhood
Atonement
The Mercenaries

KOH??? Really??? In spite of the biggest piece of miscasting I have ever seen with Orloondo Bland as the rousing leader! There were some epic scenes but Blandy ruined it

Well it is each to their own,I found the extended Directors Cut the one to watch.

I never realised there was an extended version. I'll have to look for that

Stewie Griffin

lots of +1s to whats been suggested, has no one mentioned battle of Britain? The most spectacular sequences I had seen as a kid, I remember cheering :P

magicrhodes

Stewie Griffin wrote:

lots of +1s to whats been suggested, has no one mentioned battle of Britain? The most spectacular sequences I had seen as a kid, I remember cheering :P

I think that the planes organised for that film consituted the world's 6th largest airforce at the time.

Pross

There's just so many and a lot of them I haven't seen for a long time. 633 Squadron, Dambusters, Battle of the River Plate (a favourite as a friend of my dad was on the Ajax and was in fact known to everyone as Ajax). Considering the number of TV channels these days we don't get to see that many anymore other than the really poor quality ones on Movies for Men!

RichN95.

We're on to page 3 and no-one has mentioned Paths of Glory.

It's excellent (and was banned in France for about 30 years).

fungus_the_muffin_man

Film 4 is great for watching old war films. especially in the afternoon when i'm off work and should be out on the bike training lol


Operation Amsterdam is also another cracker as is
The cruel Sea
In Which We Serve
Mrs Miniver
Passage to Marseille
The Sea Chase
The First of the Few
The Foreman went to France
Angels One Five
633 Squadron

I could go on and on and on here

disgruntledgoat

Has nobody had A Bridge Too Far yet?

or Tora! Tora! Tora!

or the Dirty Dozen?

SteveR_100Milers

The cruel sea, what a classic!

+1 for Ice cold in alex and private ryan. I do like Blackhawk down too, as I love watching ridley scotts emotional pomposity in its true overblown sense. so many good films mentioned, so many unmentioned, pointless in listing them all as this thread might as well be IMDB

brit66

- Breaker Morant
- Glory
- The Duelists

nicktheluddite

Maybe not the best, but worth checking out is The Big Red One - Lee Marvin as battle-hardened sergeant getting his troop through WW2. As a bonus it has Mark Hamill in too.

zippypablo

Only one vote for Full Metal Jacket so far? Well I'll make it 2. Plus Kelly's Heroes.

oscarbudgie

brit66 wrote:

- Breaker Morant
- Glory
- The Duelists

Duellists - fantastic film - I still reckon its Ridley Scott's best

disquieting_museeuws

84C MoPic (aka 84 Charlie MoPic) is worth seeking out I reckon.